{"id":14516,"date":"2024-08-25T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T13:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14516"},"modified":"2024-08-25T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T13:17:46","slug":"its-time-to-stop-arguing-over-the-population-slowdown-and-start-adapting-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14516","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to stop arguing over the population slowdown and start adapting to it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The US is an exception in the rich world in that its population is projected to keep growing through the 21st century, reaching some 421 million by 2100. But that\u2019s much less a function of fertility \u2014 US fertility has been below replacement level for years \u2014 than it is of the country\u2019s openness to immigration. Recent census projections show that if immigration to the US stopped tomorrow, the US population would begin to fall immediately and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/new-census-projections-show-immigration-is-essential-to-the-growth-and-vitality-of-a-more-diverse-us-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hit just 226 million by 2100<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/361365\/population-fertility-birth-rates-china-united-nations-aging\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/361365\/population-fertility-birth-rates-china-united-nations-aging<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The US is an exception in the rich world in that its population is projected to keep growing through the 21st century, reaching some 421 million by 2100. But that\u2019s much less a function of fertility \u2014 US fertility has been below replacement level for years \u2014 than it is of the country\u2019s openness to immigration. Recent census projections show that if immigration to the US stopped tomorrow, the US population would begin to fall immediately and hit just 226 million by 2100.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/361365\/population-fertility-birth-rates-china-united-nations-aging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1959,625,626,168],"class_list":["post-14516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-birth-rate","tag-births","tag-demographics","tag-population"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14517,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516\/revisions\/14517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}